I find these obstructionist republicans
are keeping it up especially Sen. Lindsey Grahm.
sucks..

R-south carolina sucks and let them keep being obstructionsist and the senate in 2010 will go to 70
democrats
henry

The choice between the DEMOlition party and the REPUBLICscrapped orgy is far finer then described here.  It is like the 18-year-old, in jail for the first time…“Hey Yo Youse a Nazi, a Nigger, or a Spick?”  No matter what he chooses somebody’s gonna fuck him.

I’ve spoken about Lawrence, and Worcester Massachusetts before.  Both these cities in the liberal backyard of Ted John and Deval. The slums. waste and lack of concern date to before the 1970’s.

BUT

These cities are no worse off than where the R’s control things. Chrome Avenue in Miami Gary Indiana,and in the Oklahoma City Housing authority which will shortly be under control of a “master” as it slips into receivership.

No, working folks get the shit end of the stick no matter which party is “running things”

The only practical solution is to give one the congress, and the other the white house…. then at least they will have to buy rubbers!

The Republican Party has always been a criminal organization to those who run it. How it is merged with the Nazi Party.

To answer one commenter sure there are corrupt democrats.The difference is that a Democrat if he is corrupt will try to steal one dollar in five.The republican wants the whole five dollars.A Democrat will steal setting up social programs that benefit everybody. The republican will make war and hire Blackwater.Which corrupt official is less scary?

Our jails are full of the WRONG people, the poor & defenseless. The REAL criminals get elected.

Cyrena can’t accept the failures of her own party that she has to try and blame the republicans? Get real. They are your party, they are Democrats, they are just as corrupt and they are failures.

Another attempt by cyrena to define “is”…. A Democrat is a Democrat is a Democrat. Blame your own party for their own miserable failures.

Dave - neither party discriminates when it comes to being corrupt. The Repugs just keep raising the bar for the Dems to aspire to, and they will.

When John Edwards talks abiut public financing for federal campaigns everybody looks at him like he is nuts.Public financing of campaigns will save the taxpayers much more than the cost of the campaigns.It will be an attempt to end the cozy money relationship between politicians and rich lobbyists.

117086 by Robert Giacobbe on 11/30 at 10:24 am

@ #117048 by Conservative Yankee:

“I think you need to change your screen name.  You can keep the yankee part.”

I’ll take that under advisement, and have my lawyers get back to you.

Why doesn’t every home-owner register themselves as a ‘corporation’, then they don’t HAVE to be responsible.

Most critical to the Nationwide FORECLOSURE Crisis is the FORECLOSURE FRAUD component.  In almost all instances of foreclosure fraud, MORTGAGE LENDERS become enabled to ILLEGALLY FLIP properties.

In Louisiana, it is HIGHLY COMMON for COLLECTOR attorneys to file foreclosures: (i) in the name of a DEFUNCT mortgage company;(ii)in the name of a mortgage company which is NO LONGER holder of the security interest (the promissory note); or (iii) file a foreclosure and AFFIX a ‘ransom’ amount (the collector’s fee) far exceeding what the promissory note “Acceleration Clause” authorizes.

Despite a property owner’s entitlement to CHALLENGE CONTRARY-TO-LAW loss of his / her home, most property owners LACK consumer and legal knowledge; the Court System is REFRACTORY; and there is a SHORTAGE of attorneys with acumen to pursue this area of Consumer Law!

Also, when borrowers sue for “Unfair Debt Collection Practices,” etc., the collector gets to make more $$ through prolonged litigation, and reaps added billable hourly fees. As such, it is NOT
HARD to conceive that $$ which should have been paid to Wall Street INVESTORS went to collectors and to association-in-fact” members of real estate fraud who got a slice of the foreclosure pie.

Judicial Corruption is the underlying factor of New Orleans Apartheid conditions that became exposed due to Hurricane Katrina floods.  The court systems as well as the Louisiana division of the U.S. Justice
Department FACILITATES real estate and mortgage FRAUD here!!

EXAMPLE:  In my absence, a debt collector attorney conducted a simulated auction of my residence on May 19, 2005 by use of non-existent mortgagor GE Capital Mortgage Services’ identity. Although GE Capital Mortgage Services ceased to exist on October 25, 2002, documents were created to portray the successful auction bidder as defunct GE Capital, and the property deed was transferred out of my
name and registered in the name of GE Capital.  Months, later, 3 days before Katrina hit New Orleans, my family and I was evicted by a
different attorney on behalf of mortgage giant FREDDIE MAC.  According to false documents, Freddie is recorded as having purchased my residence from GE Capital in July 2005.  To the contrary, GE Capital Mortgage Services became DEFUNCT on October 25, 2002, due to a merger. Thus, it is impossible for Freddie Mac to have lawfully bought my house.

Default on my part, stemming from an abusive marriage, is a fact -and I was trying to negotiate, but the UNREASONABLE RANSOM and other extortion tactics by the debt collector hindered me.  (Ransom-type repossessions / foreclosures in New Orleans have caused several pre-Katrina DEBT COLLECTION lawsuits by various homeowners.)  As mentioned, illegalities pertaining to real estate fraud, as well as judicial corruption is common in Louisiana—and SEVERE REPRISALS become INFLICTED on people who do not cooperate with property
extortion.  Everything I have written here is verifiable in court records and transcripts; and overwhelming evidence is posted on my website.

Lastly, Investors need to become more astute about how mortgage servicers’ misdeeds hurts borrowers as well as siphons incalculable amounts of money from what Investors should reap. (See “Limiting Abuse
and Opportunism By Mortgage Servicers,” AND “Private Property Rights Deferred: Has Predatory Mortgage Servicing Destroyed The American
Dream” by Rawle Andrews, Jr.,  Esq.,and Leroy Jones, Jr., J.D.  Visit: 
http://www.msfraud.org/index.html.)

**Here’s a few site links which clarify and prove what I’ve written:

“ILLEGAL REAL ESTATE FLIPPING…”
http://www.lawgrace.org/2007/06/21/illegal-real-estate-flipping-unfair-enrichment-etc/

“Anatomy of Judicial Corruption,. . .”
http://www.lawgrace.org/2007/09/04/motion-for-reinstatement-of-07-30426-appeal-case-explanation-of-request-for-extension-of-time-to-file-brief-and-for-reconsideration-of-5th-circuit-orders-dated-august-31-2007/

117022 by Robert Giacobbe on 11/30 at 7:32 am

“The bill, House Resolution 3609, allows judges to ameliorate the terms of abusive ‘subprime’ mortgages.”
“Not abusive at all, but a direct result of the idiot, greedy buyers who agreed to terms they could never possibly deliver to, and the idiot, greedy lenders who agreed to unacceptable levels of default risk.”

You remind me ao a former Judge here in Maine who asked the abused wife in his court;

“...and what did you do to deserve this?”

As my screen-name suggests, I favor “personal responsibility” BUT I also (doing much dealing in real estate)have heard RE brokers, and lenders tell prespective clients “Don’t worry, in five years the price of your house will increase, and you will be making more money, so any “small increase” won’t hurt you.

It has been 50 years since we have had inflation coupled with declining property values.  People were born, and grew to adulthood never believing such a thing could occur, and anyway, the bankers must know what they are doing?

As a “conservative” I opposed the deregulation of the banking industry.  Unregulated commercial lenders (Like Ditech, and Countrywide)are poor substitutes for the old regulated savings bank which did the lion’s share of home mortgages before Nixon. Local lenders are aware of economic factors which effect their sphere. National lenders don’t do “local histories”

As to your comment on “Mcmansions” the properties I see being foreclosed are 2 bedroom one bath prefabricated housing usually on less than an acre.

I would not be opposed to a bail out (similar to the one offered Chrysler) of first time homebuyers in foreclosure IF part of the legislation returned the first time under $300,000 home mortgages to regulated status. We’ll never get our local bganks back, but maybe we can make the larger institutions pay some attention to local markets.

I notice (on the foreclosure map) that Westchester County New York, Bergan County New Jersey, and Fairfield County Connecticut have the lowest levels of foreclosure in the Nation….. Where do Citibank’s CEO and board members live?

Well, if the people in out state regions fail, they can always come to the urban community.  They’re too proud to take hand-outs, of course…  Unlike the stereotype of us urban folks, who live off them, supposedly. 
Just like going to California in the days of the Dust bowl.  Come to the lands of milk and honey, where “socialist liberals” get paid for nothing, country boys.  Let us help you raise your chilrens to fight the drug wars…  You’re either for us or against us…  Either way, you’ll probably spend some time in jail.  Kinda’ like the boot camp.  Three squares and cot, as they say.

That way the Blue Dogs won’t have to worry about their votes, and the electoral college can explain their opinions away as the unwashed masses, minorities, or just crazy liberal socialists, who aren’t “real Americans” as defined by Ronald Reagan’s handbook of official television stereotypes covered by the Constitution.

“conservative”

DANIAL WEBSTER

“Cautious; having a risk-averse investment strategy which has preservation of capital as a high priority.”

SAMUEL FRANCIS

“The survival and enhancement of a particular people and its institutionalized cultural expressions.

ROGER SCRUTON

“Maintenance of the social ecology”  “the politics of delay” Mr Scruton meaning conservative purpose is to maintain, relatively unaltered, the vitality and health of a society.

Conservatives believe that sweeping transformation and untested ideas should not be employed before being fully assessed.

Up here in New England, a “Yankee conservative” would stay out of his neighbor’s affairs unless invited to help. They generally believe in small weak Federal Government relying more on State Government. They pinch a nickel until the buffalo shits on Jefferson, and if true to their position, refuse any governmental assistance, knowing that anything you get from government comes with “strings” designed to keep one “dependent”

The mis-use of the word “conservative” can be traced to the misuse of the word “liberal” No true Yankee Conservative would be involved in telling a woman how to handle a pregnancy unless they were asked by the woman in question, AND that woman had some close attachment to the person she was asking.  Otherwise the classic Maine/New Hampshire response would be “That’s surely not my business….”

My belief is that the liberal/conservative thing arose when the two political parties became embarrassed about what they had become. Campaign signs rarely have a party affiliation on them any more.  BUT they often (at least hereabouts) have the “conservative” or “liberal” designation (less often “liberal” these days)

The Bush administration AND the Dixicrats are FAR from any real definition of conservative.  Someone should point out this perfidy.

“conservative”

DANIAL WEBSTER

“Cautious; having a risk-averse investment strategy which has preservation of capital as a high priority.”

SAMUEL FRANCIS

“The survival and enhancement of a particular people and its institutionalized cultural expressions.

ROGER SCRUTON

“Maintenance of the social ecology”  “the politics of delay” Mr Scruton meaning conservative purpose is to maintain, relatively unaltered, the vitality and health of a society.

Conservatives believe that sweeping transformation and untested ideas should not be employed before being fully assessed.

Up here in New England, a “Yankee conservative” would stay out of his neighbor’s affairs unless invited to help. They generally believe in small weak Federal Government relying more on State Government. They pinch a nickel until the buffalo shits on Jefferson, and if true to their position, refuse any governmental assistance, knowing that anything you get from government comes with “strings” designed to keep one “dependent”

The mis-use of the word “conservative” can be traced to the misuse of the word “liberal” No true Yankee Conservative would be involved in telling a woman how to handle a pregnancy unless they were asked by the woman in question, AND that woman had some close attachment to the person she was asking.  Otherwise the classic Maine/New Hampshire response would be “That’s surely not my business….”

My belief is that the liberal/conservative thing arose when the two political parties became embarrassed about what they had become. Campaign signs rarely have a party affiliation on them any more.  BUT they often (at least hereabouts) have the “conservative” or “liberal” designation (less often “liberal” these days)

The Bush administration is FAR from any real definition of conservative.  Someone should point out this perfidy.